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title: The mother of the genius was rejoiced to see her son return safe and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The mother of the genius was rejoiced to see her son return safe and sound, and prepared her best room for the princess, who, after so much fatigue, needed rest badly. Who acts: son, much fatigue. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, with 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 7

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The mother of the genius was rejoiced to see her son return safe and sound, and prepared her best room for the princess, who, after so much fatigue, needed rest badly.

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**Who acts:** son, much fatigue · **What happens:** rejoice, see, return, prepare, need · **To what, where:** mother, son, best room, rest

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, much fatigue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:39:7
# text = The mother of the genius was rejoiced to see her son return safe and sound, and prepared her best room for the princess, who, after so much fatigue, needed rest badly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
34	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | past · passive |  | the mother of the genius |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | Sunlight's son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** | infinitive | Sunlight's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **prepare** | past |  | Sunlight's best room |  |  |  | for the princess | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent room=Product for princess=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **need** | participle | much fatigue *not said here* | rest |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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